Mohona Chaudhuri
Biographic Data
| ID | 1037352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohona Chaudhuri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohona |
| FAMILY NAME | Chaudhuri |
| SIGNATURE | CHAUDHURI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-7810-7363 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Sociological Consciousness, Democracy and Development: A Necessary Revisit in ‘Our Times
This article is a revised version of my presidential address delivered on 22 December 2024 at the Forty-Ninth All India Sociological Conference held at BML Munjal University, Gurugram. In this article, I explore the historical and conceptual interconnections between democracy, development and the making of sociological consciousness. In the contemporary context marked by demands for instant deliverables and managerialism, we must resist the easy …
Culture and Cultural Policy in Radhakamal Mukerjee and Indian Sociology: Text in Context
This article focuses on culture and cultural policy for it is a theme present in Radhakamal Mukerjee’s (RKM) writings and is a persistent presence in Indian sociology. Perhaps no other time is more appropriate than now to revisit the debates on cultural policy than in a context defined by cultural majoritarianism. One attempts here a synoptic account of RKM’s approach to culture and also suggests pointers as to how we ought to read the contradict…
Globalization in Indian sociology: The invisible and the hypervisible
This paper seeks to examine the new empirical realities in India that globalization has ushered in and to explore the reasons for the hypervisibility of some of these realities and the neglect of others. The two interrelated questions that this paper asks of Indian sociology are: Why did a globalization propelled by the rise of new urban spaces, an expanding middle class, and a culture of consumption draw so much attention from Indian sociology? …
Le démantèlement et la fabrication des sciences sociales dans l'Inde contemporaine
Cet article traite des sciences sociales, et plus particulièrement de leur transformation à la suite de la victoire du Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) aux élections nationales de 2014. Les révisions bâclées de manuels, les coupes budgétaires incessantes et le déclin dans l'indice de liberté académique témoignent de la précarité croissante que connaissent aujourd'hui les sciences sociales en Inde. Nous situons cette précarité à l'intersection du tour…
Entre invisibilité et hypervisibilité: La mondialisation dans la sociologie indienne
Cet article tente à la fois de parler des nouvelles réalités empiriques en Inde que la mondialisation a introduites et d’explorer les raisons de l’hypervisibilité de certaines de ces réalités empiriques et de la négligence d’autres. Les deux questions liées que cet article pose à la sociologie indienne sont les suivantes : Pourquoi la montée en puissance de nouveaux espaces urbains, d’une classe moyenne en expansion et d’une culture de la consomm…
Covid-19 and Structural Inequalities: Some Reflections on the Practice of Sociology
Self, society, and social science knowledge
In this chapter, I draw from C. Wright Mill’s understanding of the public and personal, history and biography, to reflect the changing times within which my generation grew up and entered the world of social sciences in the tail end of the 1970s. Times have changed, just as the rapidity of change has changed. Usage of the first person was unheard of in social science writing then. Distant, neutral, and objective was the purported goal of social s…
Profession: Doing Sociology: Some Persistent Questions
Feminisms and sociologies: Locations and intersections in a global context
This article explores the many ways that sociologies and feminisms have intersected with an equal emphasis on the actual content of these intersections as well as on the context. First, the article shows how disciplinary histories and feminist rethinking across 'nations' and 'regions' do bear similarities, but also differ in many significant ways. Second, linked to the matter of contexts and travels is the matter of hierarchies within internation…
Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency
Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency Jasbir Jain New Delhi, Sage Publications, 2011 368 pp., ISBN: 9788132104391 This is a book that is a welcome addition to the ongoing q
Feminism in India: The Tale and its Telling
Cet article donne un aperçu du féminisme en Inde qui soulève en même temps des questions d’ordre théorique. La théorie postcoloniale ne tient pas compte du fait que ce qui est considéré comme « marginal » pour l’occident a souvent joué un rôle central dans le reste du monde. Privilégiant l’analyse des textes, les études postcoloniales négligent l’analyse historique des contraintes liées aux institutions sociales et des possibilités d’action des i…
Indian media and its transformed public
Indian media has witnessed an unprecedented growth over the last two decades. This expansion does not necessarily lead to greater democratic participation for the very idea of the 'public' has undergone a transformation, evident in: the ideological content of the media, the extra-national membership of the public sphere and the interactive form of publicness. The article argues that the media plays a crucial ideological role in recasting public d…
A Social Charter for India: Citizens' Perspective of Basic Rights
The Poser Universalising and Indigenising Social Knowledge: Breaking the Western Hegemony
Learning through Teaching the 'Sociology of Gender
This paper reflects on the experience of teaching a course on women and society in a sociology department over a period of seven years. This is discussed from different angles—related to sociology and its disciplinary location; questions of women's studies and feminist politics; and the complex dimensions of pedagogy in particular. The diversity amongst students and the politics of the classroom repeatedly emerge as critical issues in the paper. …
Gender and advertisements
Feminism' in Print Media
Locating the issue of feminism in the institutional context of the print media, we discover two popular versions of feminism that the media promote, a feminism of choice' and a 'traditional feminism'. At the same time, they express hostility, both covert and not-so-covert, to organised women's movements. This simultaneous cooptation and backlash is seemingly a sign of a con sensus over some of feminism's demands, such as equality, while it also p…
Gender in the Making of the Indian Nation-State
L'A. analyse la situation et le role joue par les femmes dans le processus de construction de l'Etat-nation indien et dans la vie politique et sociale de l'Inde actuelle. Il souligne que la construction de l'Etat indien s'inscrit dans une logique liberale. Il examine la place de la femme en Inde, dans ce cadre, notamment sur le plan de citoyennete et de la participation politique. Il etudie le role joue par les femmes au sein des differents mouve…
Global Change, Regional Responses: The New International Context of Development
Citizens, Workers and Emblems of Culture: An Analysis of the First Plan Document on Women
L'A. envisage le fonctionnement du «National Planning Committee» cree en Inde en 1938 par le Parti du Congres. Il s'interesse plus particulierement a la commission chargee d'etudier le role des femmes en ce qui concerne la planification economique. Il montre en quoi cette commission s'est interrogee sur le role des femmes sur le plan de la nation, de la citoyennete, du travail. Il analyse les conceptions de cette commission, sur le plan de la cul…
Gender and advertisements
Citizens, Workers and Emblems of Culture: An Analysis of the First Plan Document on Women
L'A. envisage le fonctionnement du «National Planning Committee» cree en Inde en 1938 par le Parti du Congres. Il s'interesse plus particulierement a la commission chargee d'etudier le role des femmes en ce qui concerne la planification economique. Il montre en quoi cette commission s'est interrogee sur le role des femmes sur le plan de la nation, de la citoyennete, du travail. Il analyse les conceptions de cette commission, sur le plan de la cul…
Learning through Teaching the 'Sociology of Gender
This paper reflects on the experience of teaching a course on women and society in a sociology department over a period of seven years. This is discussed from different angles—related to sociology and its disciplinary location; questions of women's studies and feminist politics; and the complex dimensions of pedagogy in particular. The diversity amongst students and the politics of the classroom repeatedly emerge as critical issues in the paper. …
Feminism' in Print Media
Locating the issue of feminism in the institutional context of the print media, we discover two popular versions of feminism that the media promote, a feminism of choice' and a 'traditional feminism'. At the same time, they express hostility, both covert and not-so-covert, to organised women's movements. This simultaneous cooptation and backlash is seemingly a sign of a con sensus over some of feminism's demands, such as equality, while it also p…
Indian media and its transformed public
Indian media has witnessed an unprecedented growth over the last two decades. This expansion does not necessarily lead to greater democratic participation for the very idea of the 'public' has undergone a transformation, evident in: the ideological content of the media, the extra-national membership of the public sphere and the interactive form of publicness. The article argues that the media plays a crucial ideological role in recasting public d…
Profession: Doing Sociology: Some Persistent Questions
Gender in the Making of the Indian Nation-State
L'A. analyse la situation et le role joue par les femmes dans le processus de construction de l'Etat-nation indien et dans la vie politique et sociale de l'Inde actuelle. Il souligne que la construction de l'Etat indien s'inscrit dans une logique liberale. Il examine la place de la femme en Inde, dans ce cadre, notamment sur le plan de citoyennete et de la participation politique. Il etudie le role joue par les femmes au sein des differents mouve…
Covid-19 and Structural Inequalities: Some Reflections on the Practice of Sociology
Feminisms and sociologies: Locations and intersections in a global context
This article explores the many ways that sociologies and feminisms have intersected with an equal emphasis on the actual content of these intersections as well as on the context. First, the article shows how disciplinary histories and feminist rethinking across 'nations' and 'regions' do bear similarities, but also differ in many significant ways. Second, linked to the matter of contexts and travels is the matter of hierarchies within internation…
Globalization in Indian sociology: The invisible and the hypervisible
This paper seeks to examine the new empirical realities in India that globalization has ushered in and to explore the reasons for the hypervisibility of some of these realities and the neglect of others. The two interrelated questions that this paper asks of Indian sociology are: Why did a globalization propelled by the rise of new urban spaces, an expanding middle class, and a culture of consumption draw so much attention from Indian sociology? …
Feminism in India: The Tale and its Telling
Cet article donne un aperçu du féminisme en Inde qui soulève en même temps des questions d’ordre théorique. La théorie postcoloniale ne tient pas compte du fait que ce qui est considéré comme « marginal » pour l’occident a souvent joué un rôle central dans le reste du monde. Privilégiant l’analyse des textes, les études postcoloniales négligent l’analyse historique des contraintes liées aux institutions sociales et des possibilités d’action des i…
Citizens, Workers and Emblems of Culture: An Analysis of the First Plan Document on Women
L'A. envisage le fonctionnement du «National Planning Committee» cree en Inde en 1938 par le Parti du Congres. Il s'interesse plus particulierement a la commission chargee d'etudier le role des femmes en ce qui concerne la planification economique. Il montre en quoi cette commission s'est interrogee sur le role des femmes sur le plan de la nation, de la citoyennete, du travail. Il analyse les conceptions de cette commission, sur le plan de la cul…
Global Change, Regional Responses: The New International Context of Development
Gender in the Making of the Indian Nation-State
L'A. analyse la situation et le role joue par les femmes dans le processus de construction de l'Etat-nation indien et dans la vie politique et sociale de l'Inde actuelle. Il souligne que la construction de l'Etat indien s'inscrit dans une logique liberale. Il examine la place de la femme en Inde, dans ce cadre, notamment sur le plan de citoyennete et de la participation politique. Il etudie le role joue par les femmes au sein des differents mouve…
Feminism' in Print Media
Locating the issue of feminism in the institutional context of the print media, we discover two popular versions of feminism that the media promote, a feminism of choice' and a 'traditional feminism'. At the same time, they express hostility, both covert and not-so-covert, to organised women's movements. This simultaneous cooptation and backlash is seemingly a sign of a con sensus over some of feminism's demands, such as equality, while it also p…
Gender and advertisements
Learning through Teaching the 'Sociology of Gender
This paper reflects on the experience of teaching a course on women and society in a sociology department over a period of seven years. This is discussed from different angles—related to sociology and its disciplinary location; questions of women's studies and feminist politics; and the complex dimensions of pedagogy in particular. The diversity amongst students and the politics of the classroom repeatedly emerge as critical issues in the paper. …
The Poser Universalising and Indigenising Social Knowledge: Breaking the Western Hegemony
A Social Charter for India: Citizens' Perspective of Basic Rights
Indian media and its transformed public
Indian media has witnessed an unprecedented growth over the last two decades. This expansion does not necessarily lead to greater democratic participation for the very idea of the 'public' has undergone a transformation, evident in: the ideological content of the media, the extra-national membership of the public sphere and the interactive form of publicness. The article argues that the media plays a crucial ideological role in recasting public d…
Feminism in India: The Tale and its Telling
Cet article donne un aperçu du féminisme en Inde qui soulève en même temps des questions d’ordre théorique. La théorie postcoloniale ne tient pas compte du fait que ce qui est considéré comme « marginal » pour l’occident a souvent joué un rôle central dans le reste du monde. Privilégiant l’analyse des textes, les études postcoloniales négligent l’analyse historique des contraintes liées aux institutions sociales et des possibilités d’action des i…
Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency
Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency Jasbir Jain New Delhi, Sage Publications, 2011 368 pp., ISBN: 9788132104391 This is a book that is a welcome addition to the ongoing q
Profession: Doing Sociology: Some Persistent Questions
Feminisms and sociologies: Locations and intersections in a global context
This article explores the many ways that sociologies and feminisms have intersected with an equal emphasis on the actual content of these intersections as well as on the context. First, the article shows how disciplinary histories and feminist rethinking across 'nations' and 'regions' do bear similarities, but also differ in many significant ways. Second, linked to the matter of contexts and travels is the matter of hierarchies within internation…
Self, society, and social science knowledge
In this chapter, I draw from C. Wright Mill’s understanding of the public and personal, history and biography, to reflect the changing times within which my generation grew up and entered the world of social sciences in the tail end of the 1970s. Times have changed, just as the rapidity of change has changed. Usage of the first person was unheard of in social science writing then. Distant, neutral, and objective was the purported goal of social s…
Entre invisibilité et hypervisibilité: La mondialisation dans la sociologie indienne
Cet article tente à la fois de parler des nouvelles réalités empiriques en Inde que la mondialisation a introduites et d’explorer les raisons de l’hypervisibilité de certaines de ces réalités empiriques et de la négligence d’autres. Les deux questions liées que cet article pose à la sociologie indienne sont les suivantes : Pourquoi la montée en puissance de nouveaux espaces urbains, d’une classe moyenne en expansion et d’une culture de la consomm…
Covid-19 and Structural Inequalities: Some Reflections on the Practice of Sociology
Culture and Cultural Policy in Radhakamal Mukerjee and Indian Sociology: Text in Context
This article focuses on culture and cultural policy for it is a theme present in Radhakamal Mukerjee’s (RKM) writings and is a persistent presence in Indian sociology. Perhaps no other time is more appropriate than now to revisit the debates on cultural policy than in a context defined by cultural majoritarianism. One attempts here a synoptic account of RKM’s approach to culture and also suggests pointers as to how we ought to read the contradict…
Globalization in Indian sociology: The invisible and the hypervisible
This paper seeks to examine the new empirical realities in India that globalization has ushered in and to explore the reasons for the hypervisibility of some of these realities and the neglect of others. The two interrelated questions that this paper asks of Indian sociology are: Why did a globalization propelled by the rise of new urban spaces, an expanding middle class, and a culture of consumption draw so much attention from Indian sociology? …
Le démantèlement et la fabrication des sciences sociales dans l'Inde contemporaine
Cet article traite des sciences sociales, et plus particulièrement de leur transformation à la suite de la victoire du Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) aux élections nationales de 2014. Les révisions bâclées de manuels, les coupes budgétaires incessantes et le déclin dans l'indice de liberté académique témoignent de la précarité croissante que connaissent aujourd'hui les sciences sociales en Inde. Nous situons cette précarité à l'intersection du tour…
The Sociological Consciousness, Democracy and Development: A Necessary Revisit in ‘Our Times
This article is a revised version of my presidential address delivered on 22 December 2024 at the Forty-Ninth All India Sociological Conference held at BML Munjal University, Gurugram. In this article, I explore the historical and conceptual interconnections between democracy, development and the making of sociological consciousness. In the contemporary context marked by demands for instant deliverables and managerialism, we must resist the easy …
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